ArticleMedical history2013
Road traffic injuries: social change and development.
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- Promoting health and safety in public transportation: A call to action for sub-Saharan Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025Article
- Trends in Road Traffic Injuries Mortality in India: An Analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 1990-2021.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2025Article
- Pedestrians' Perception of Pedestrian Bridges-A Qualitative Study in Dar es Salaam.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Trauma Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2021Review
- Patient profiles of below knee-amputation following road traffic accidents - An observational study from a level 1 trauma centre in India.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2021Article
- Using an evidence-based safety approach to develop China's road safety strategies.Journal of global health · 2019Article
- Social Differences in the Prevalence of Road Traffic Injuries among Pedestrians, and Vehicle and Motorcycle Users in Iran: Results of a National Multiple Indicator Demographic and Health Survey (IrMIDHS, 2010).International journal of preventive medicine · 2019Article
- Ecological study of road traffic injuries in the eastern Mediterranean region: country economic level, road user category and gender perspectives.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Road traffic deaths in Kashan region, Iran: An eight-year study (2006-2013).Chinese journal of traumatology = Zhonghua chuang shang za zhi · 2018Article
- The impact of alcohol and road traffic policies on crash rates in Botswana, 2004-2011: a time-series analysis.Accident; analysis and prevention · 2014Article
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Abstract
In the course of the twentieth century road traffic injuries (RTIs) became a major public health burden. RTI deaths first increased in high-income countries and declined after the 1970s, and they soared in low- and middle-income countries from the 1980s onwards. As motorisation took off in North America and then spread to Europe and to the rest of the world discussions on RTIs have reflected and influenced international interpretations of the costs and benefits of 'development', as conventionally understood. Using discourse analysis, this paper explores how RTIs have been constructed in ways that have served regional and global development agendas and how 'development' has been (re-)negotiated through the discourse of RTIs and vice versa. For this purpose, this paper analyses a selection of key publications of organisations in charge of international health or transport and places them in the context of (a) the surrounding scientific discussion of the period and (b) of relevant data regarding RTI mortality, development funding, and road and other transport infrastructure. Findings suggest that constructions of RTIs have shifted from being a necessary price to be paid for development to being a sign of development at an early stage or of an insufficiently coordinated development. In recent years, RTI discussions have raised questions about development being misdirected and in need of fundamental rethinking. At present, discussions are believed to be at a crossroads between different evaluations of developmental conceptualisations for the future.
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